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Subject Area
Music
Course Name
Cardinal Band
Date
Dec. 16, 2010
Course Description: This class is an auditioned ensemble for students primarily in 11th-12th grade. Students may also participate in orchestra and choir in addition to band.
Standards and Skills/Benchmarks are from the National Association for Music Education Standards.
Time
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Content
Intonation
Note-reading
Counting
Dynamics
Interpretation
Tone Quality Vibrato
Rhythm
Balance/Blend
Articulation
Posture
Advanced
Fingerings,
Stickings, and Slide
Positions
Standards Addressed
2. Performing on instruments,
alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music
5. Reading and notating music
6. Listening to, analyzing, and
describing music
7. Evaluating music and music
performances
9. Understanding music in
relation to history and culture
Jan
Feb
Mar
April
Interpretation of
Band Repertoire for
Solo/Ensemble and
Contest building on
above content
standards.
Perform a wide
variety of
predominantly
standard classical
music
2. Performing on instruments,
alone and with others, a varied
repertoire of music
5. Reading and notating music
6. Listening to, analyzing, and
describing music
7. Evaluating music and music
performances
9. Understanding music in
relation to history and culture
Skills/Benchmarks
Perform with expression and technical
accuracy a large and varied repertoire of
instrumental literature with a level of
difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6.
Demonstrate the ability to read an
instrumental score by describing how the
elements of music are used.
Analyze aural examples of a varied
repertoire of music, representing diverse
genres and cultures, by describing the
uses of elements of music and expressive
devices.
Evolve specific criteria for making
informed, critical evaluations of the
quality and effectiveness of
performances, compositions,
arrangements, and improvisations and
apply the criteria in their personal
participation in music.
Classify by genre or style and by
historical period or culture unfamiliar but
representative aural examples of music
and explain the reasoning behind their
classifications.
Perform in small ensembles with one
student on a part.
Demonstrate the ability to read an
instrumental score by describing how the
elements of music are used and
explaining all transpositions and clefs.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the
technical vocabulary of music.
Evaluate a performance, composition,
arrangement, or improvisation by
comparing it to similar or exemplary
models.
Identify and explain the stylistic features
Essential Questions
What are the life-long
benefits of learning music?
What does a quality wind
ensemble sound like?
How have composers
throughout various time
periods in music history
contributed to music?
What skills do we learn in
music that we can use all
throughout life?
What is the role of each
section/instrument of the
wind ensemble in
portraying the proper
interpretation of the piece
of music?
Assessments
Performance Assessments
(Playing Tests)
Group performances
(Concerts)
Written evaluations of
performances
All assessments will
demonstrate the content
standards: intonation, tone
quality, rhythm, technique,
musicianship, balance and
blend, and articulation
Contest performance –
solo/ensemble and large
group
All-State Audition
Evaluation of own
performance and also the
performance of other
groups at contest
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of a given musical work that serve to
define its aesthetic tradition and its
historical or cultural context.
Apr
Perform a wide
1. Performing on instruments, Perform an appropriate part in an
How can performing in a
May
variety of band
alone and with others, a varied ensemble, demonstrating well-developed
musical ensemble make
June
literature
repertoire of music
ensemble skills.
one a better citizen?
Sight-read
5. Reading and notating music Sight-read, accurately and expressively,
instrumental music
6. Listening to, analyzing, and music with a level of difficulty of 4, on a
of various levels of
describing music
scale of 1 to 6.
difficulty
7. Evaluating music and music Analyze and describe uses of the elements
performances
of music in a given work that make it
unique, interesting, and expressive.
Evaluate a given musical work in terms of
its aesthetic qualities and explain the
musical means it uses to evoke feelings
and emotions.
Content -- big ideas, broad topics, major subcategories and underlying concepts
Standards Addressed -- state and/or local standards
Skills/Benchmarks -- tells what the student will be able to do as a result of instruction
Essential Questions -- what overarching questions will guide instruction and produce higher levels of thinking?
Assessments -- evidence that the student understands the concepts, demonstration of skills
Group performance
(concert)
Performance Assessments
(playing tests)
Written and verbal
evaluation of performance